After a wild postseason that included the most influential play in NFL history (by a mile), here is an updated version of some analysis that I've done at Football Perspective, a list of the 25 most important plays in the Super Bowl era.

Great series over the past week on the website OvertheCap.com featuring a new metric by Bryce Johnston. The idea here is to come up with a metric for measuring the value of a contract that gives us the most accurate accounting of how much of the contract is likely to be earned by the player. Johnston used regression analysis to determine that roughly 80 percent of the decision-making about when to cut NFL players is driven only by the numbers of the contract, not the actual value of the player.

Hey, readers. I just wanted to remind everyone that the offseason is the best time for Football Outsiders to be running guest columns. You can submit your ideas or rough drafts to us at mailbag-at-footballoutsiders.com. We're looking for deep stat analysis and new ideas or theories, although we're willing to look past that for excellent film analysis or Tanier-level humor. Please excuse the fact that we're sometimes very slow to respond to e-mails. We do get to them all, we promise.

For those of you who really, really like to rank things, Chase Stuart and the gang at FootballPerspective.com are asking for reader submissions for the top 25 quarterbacks of all time, in order. The theory is, the more submissions they get, the more accurate their survey will be. So if you're so inclined, let your opinion be heard -- er, read.

Good MMQB today by Peter King, in-depth interviews as Josh McDaniels and Tom Brady review their strategy going into the comeback drives in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLIX. Among the tidbits: they basically realized the only way to beat the Seahawks was death by a thousand paper cuts. Also, updates on the various cheating scandals around the league and whether Darren Sharper should cause us to question the Hall of Fame standards which state players should be considered for football only.

The Seahawks had 1:06 and one timeout left with a first down at the New England 5. How often does a defense prevent the touchdown in this dire situation? We examined back to 1998 and found that Bill Belichick has watched his defense come up big before in this spot.

The worst-kept secret in the NFL for the past few weeks has been the Atlanta Falcons' desire to name Seattle defensive coordinator Dan Quinn their new head coach, but they had to wait to make a formal announcement because the Seahawks kept winning playoff games. With that pattern coming to an abrupt end, the move everyone has been expecting has finally been made official.